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• The IMF is a more complicated issue. I think there is a broad sentiment among both the left and the right that the IMF may be doing more harm than good. On the right, there's the view that it represents a form of corporate welfare that is counter to the IMF's own ideology of markets. But anybody who has watched government from the inside recognizes that governments need institutions, need ways to respond to crises. If the IMF weren't there, it would probably be reinvented. So the issue is fundamentally reform.

  Joseph Stiglitz

  Thinking, Government, Views

  Source: www.progressive.org

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• Anything that forces you to act at the possible harm of your own existence is going to exact a cost. You have to then think about, "Can I pay this? What will this mean to me - to my relationships, to my family, to everybody? What is this going to take? How much of me is this going to take?"

  Alice Walker

  Mean, Thinking, Pay

  Source: alicewalkersgarden.com

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• Democrats in environmental agencies tend to be more sensitive to environmental harm. And Republicans tend to be more sensitive to business harm.

  David Brooks

  Agency, Environmental, Republican

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• There are two ways that you can go wrong in our long-term fight against jihadis. One would be to not acknowledge that terrorism and especially jihadi-motivated terrorism, comes from specific places in the world and is connected to specific ideologies. But another way to fall off a cliff and harm our long-term interests would be to imply that the U.S. is at war with Islam.

  Benjamin E. Sasse

  War, Fall, Fighting

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• When I've sent young men and women into harm's way, I always understand that that is the last resort, not the first resort.

  Barack Obama

  Men, Way, Lasts

  Source: genius.com

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• As Commander in Chief, I will maintain the strongest military in the world, keep faith with our troops and go after those who would do us harm. But after a decade of war, I think we all recognize we've got to do some nation building here at home, rebuilding our roads, our bridges and especially caring for our Veterans who sacrificed so much for our freedom.

  Barack Obama

  Military, War, Home

  Source: genius.com

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• We think of justice sometimes as getting what you deserve, you know  -  what crime was committed and what is the punishment for that crime. That's how a lot of the criminal justice works. But God's justice is restorative, so it's not as interested in those same questions of "What did they do wrong?" and "What is the punishment for that?" It's more about what harm was done and how do we heal that harm, and that's a much more redemptive version. So, it definitely doesn't turn a blind eye to harm, but it does say we want to heal the wounds of that.

  Shane Claiborne

  Eye, Thinking, Deserve You

  Source: medium.com

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• The media loves to take things like that [Rocky Marciano couldn't hold my jockstrap] out of context. There was no harm meant when I said that, but plenty of harm came from it.

  Larry Holmes

  Media, Said, Plenty

  Source: www.paneech.com

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• John Stuart Mill believed that the only acceptable reason for government to limit a person's liberty was to prevent him from causing unacceptable harm to others. Mill was not a libertarian, but many libertarians are quick to cite this principle when arguing against a regulation that they oppose. And I believe most thoughtful libertarians are prepared to embrace something fairly close to Mill's harm principle. But accepting that principle implies accepting many of the institutions of the modern welfare state that libertarians have vigorously opposed in the past, such as safety regulation.

  Robert H. Frank

  Believe, Thoughtful, Past

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• It hurts to see that everything on television is based on pillaring people. Nobody's sort of given the opportunity to be nice anymore. I think that is somewhat reflective of tragically the society that we live in today where we want to know people off their pedestal or we want to hurt, we want to harm instead of boosting and following by example. It's always about the crud of society, the black sheep of society that producers seem to think the public wants rather than my old theory of the cream rising to the top.

  Robin Leach

  Hurt, Nice, Opportunity

  Source: www.cyinterview.com

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• The Chinese can devalue their currency, apparently without doing much harm to themselves. They can do this as a strategy to destroy our economy in America.

  Rush Limbaugh

  America, Chinese, Strategy

  Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

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• That's the first rule for anybody who controls - do no harm.

  Charles Koch

  Firsts

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Whatever sentence is passed on the Gang of Four won't be excessive. They brought harm to millions upon millions of people.

  Deng Xiaoping

  People, Four, Gang

  Source: blog.hiddenharmonies.org

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• I think this mythology - that we're all beyond race, of course our police officers aren't racist, of course our politicians don't mean any harm to people of color - this idea that we're beyond all that (so it must be something else) makes it difficult for young people as well as the grown-ups to be able to see clearly and honestly the truth of what's going on. It makes it difficult to see that the backlash against the Civil Rights Movement manifested itself in the form of mass incarceration, in the form of defunding and devaluing schools serving kids of color and all the rest.

  Michelle Alexander

  School, Mean, Kids

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Popular support for alternative energy has been very high for years. But it harms corporate profits.

  Noam Chomsky

  Years, Support, Energy

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• It's kind of interesting and sick that the intellectual culture called the 1960s, "time of troubles," a dangerous period in which a lot of harm was done to the society. And the reason is because we were civilized and that's dangerous. That increased the commitment to democracy, to rights and so on, and this left people much less obedient.

  Noam Chomsky

  Commitment, Rights, People

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• When your child is very young, you must protect him from doing harm to himself and others, then later by precept, explaining to him what is going to be for his eventual happiness.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Children, Explaining, Young

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• While expressing your desires, you would need to exercise control in order to prevent them from doing harm to you or to others.

  Jiddu Krishnamurti

  Exercise, Order, Desire

  Source: www.jiddu-krishnamurti.net

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• Anything that comes from the cow, a little milk, butter, cheese, is alright for the spiritual aspirant. There is no harm to the cow, and it is of benefit to take it.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Spiritual, Benefits, Littles

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• Economics and politics are so intertwined and interlinked that politics now, mainstream politics, extreme center politics, are little else but a version of concentrated economics. And this means that any alternative - alternative capitalism, left Keynesianism, intervention by the state to help the poor, rolling back the privatizations - becomes a huge issue. The entire weight of the extreme center and its media is turned against it, which in reality now is beginning to harm democracy.

  Tariq Ali

  Mean, Reality, Media

  Source: www.counterpunch.org

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• When your life begins to harm you, know that you have taken a detour from your true path.

  Caroline Myss

  Taken, Detours, Path

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• The way I lived, I grew up in a time where people would take your shoes, they'll take your jacket, they'll take your cheese without a gun. So people would jump on you - this was like fourteen, fifteen years old. So it always taught me that you gotta have your crew, in some ways you gotta move, don't put your self in harm's way, and definitely if you're a street dude and want any kind off credibility, don't put yourself under the mercy of anybody else, or you'll be at their mercy; they can do what they want to do to you.

  Gucci Mane

  Moving, Gun, Years

  Source: www.djbooth.net

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• Most governments only want to deploy a peacekeeping force where there is a peace agreement and there is peace to keep. They are very hesitant about putting their men and women in harm's way. It is extremely difficult to get the troops if you do not have the consent of the country where you are deploying.

  Kofi Annan

  Country, Men, Want

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• I find my own pain and others' difficult to tolerate, so I always want to try to shift things so they'll be better. But in doing that, if I am coming from a place of ego, I often cause harm. So it's a struggle for me to set my ego outside and find a softer and more compassionate way of approaching things.

  Danny Boyle

  Pain, Struggle, Ego

  Source: www.elle.com

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• Journalists are among a select group, along with warriors and executioners who are authorized to do harm. As James Fallows says, a lot of journalists think that isn't so, and that everything will wash out ultimately. But I don't think they are aware of the long-term damage.

  Jean Houston

  Warrior, Thinking, Long

  Source: scottlondon.com

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